IBM moves Websphere product responsibility to Rational group

IBM announced last week that they have moved the resposibility for it’s Websphere platform products to it’s Rational group, which it purchased about a year ago.

The move is said to clarify the company’s position on it’s products, and will likely lead to tighter integration between design tools such as Rational XDE and IBM Websphere Studio Application Developer.

IBM has says the Rational tools will still retain a 50/50 split between J2EE and .NET